Here Kitty, Kitty

I’m a bit under the weather today so just some quick photos as promised on Friday.

I found the perfect basket – it once held fruit and more recently, a bunch of squash. I got my copy of Bend the Rules Sewing out and started working.

I traced the bottom and added a couple inches all the way around as a pattern. I made a pillow insert out of flannel and poly fill. Then I took the found fabric and made a cover. The back side opens – I used hook and loop tape for my closure. It fit the basket well and looked comfy, but it still wasn’t quite right.

A couple of coats of black spray paint later, I had a cat bed.

Much better. It looks great in the kitchen – the green matches the walls perfectly. Now if Scout would just use it…

Wonderful new cat bed. I hope your kitty likes it, but they can be so pig-headed. When I want my cat to lie down in a new cat bed he doesn’t like, I buy some Cat-Nip to put on the new cat bed. He likes that very much and many kitties do, so…

I love how it turned out and that fabric! Our cats hardly ever used the two cat beds we got them, either, much preferring the cat perch we got instead to prevent them from climbing on the countertops. :0)

I’ve yet to have a cat that would sleep in a cat basket:) Now, sleep on my clothes, my good quilts/afghans, the pillows…definitely!
But it surely does look nice just sitting there…maybe a stuffed animal or two would be good, that’s what our cat bed is used for now!
Michelle

Love the cat bed! My cat loves sleeping inside of things; he’d be jealous of Scout’s new bed.
Thanks for commenting on my Koolhaas. I had to have matching mitts, and I’m working out the kinks in my patten now. Hope you’re feeling better! Might see ya at tkn thurs or fri.

its so pretty! I’m glad I saw that you sprayed a basket black! I just bought some spray paint to spray some baskets, and my husband thought I was a little cray 😉
now I can show him how great yours looks!

Such a cute cat bed! I love that fabric, it is so pretty! Has Scout been using it at all? We have a cat bed for our 2 kitties, and I found that moving it around the house a little bit got them interested in it… I just put it places that they liked laying and eventually they got the hint:)

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